Security source to Sky News: Response to Hezbollah will be strong - but we don't intend to go to war

Commanding Officer of IDF's 98th Division speaks from inside the tunnel from which the hostages were rescued, beneath the area previously designated as the humanitarian area. 'We will do all it takes to bring down Hamas.'

First responders evacuate two people suffering burns, smoke inhalation, from burning apartment, declare deaths at the scene.

<p>US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield rips Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese who endorsed a social media post comparing Netanyahu to Nazi leader: No place for antisemitism.</p><p><i>(Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</i></p>

Magen David Adom has reported that of those injured in a rocket strike on a soccer field in Majdal Shams, six are in serious condition, three are in moderate condition, and ten suffered light injuries and shock.

<p>The Prime Minister's Office on Saturday night stated: "The reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemingly decided to bring forward his return to the country as a result of criticism are completely mendacious."</p><p>"The Prime Minister decided to bring forward his return immediately upon being informed of the terrible disaster in Majdal Shams and even updated the Defense Minister to this effect before the false criticism was voiced in the media.</p><p>"Prime Minister Netanyahu will convene the Security Cabinet immediately upon his return to Israel."</p>

Yoni Greenblatt, IDF soldier wounded by antitank missile in Gaza last week, dies of his wounds.

'The harder we strike them, the faster this war will end,' singer Idan Amedi writes in social media post.